"God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character."

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Robert McKee

#Character Quotes #Writing Quotes #Voice Quotes

“The world of rumors and gossip is a world of wish fulfillment. And one of the things that gives volume and amplitude to a rumor is that it satisfies people's dreams and expectations about the world...”

Source : "An Interview with James C. Scott | Harry G. West and Celia Plender". Gastronomica Interview, gastronomica.org. March 14, 2017.
“Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.”
“To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value.”
“The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.”
“I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or 14 years old. But I was also really shy when I was growing up.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Some say we can't choose who we fall in love with; love chooses us.”
“I want to produce with people that are going to be on the charts and win Grammys because having regular old street songs is cool, but I did all that already.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 6, 2012.
“God, I hate my voice! Everyone thinks I'm a female, probably... I am actually a male!”

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